Tag: washington bikes

November 13, 2015

WA Bikes/Cascade merger still on track

Work to combine Cascade Bicycle Club and Washington Bikes is still on track and moving forward, according to a WA Bikes update. We reported on the proposed merger back in August, and both organizations’ boards have since adopted a nonbinding resolution to negotiate a merger plan. The WA Bikes Board plans to vote on the…
(read more…)

tagged: 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), barb chamberlain, blake trask, cascade bicycle club, elizabeth kiker, washington bikes
August 24, 2015

WA Bikes and Cascade Bicycle Club considering merger

Washington Bikes may dissolve its current organization and join forces with a restructured Cascade Bicycle Club by the end of the year. Under the initial plan for combining organizations, “relevant” WA Bikes staff would join the newly reworked organization and WA Bikes members would become Cascade Bicycle Club members (as many already are). Cascade Bicycle…
(read more…)

tagged: barb chamberlain, blake trask, cascade bicycle club, elizabeth kiker, jeff aken, washington bikes
August 6, 2015

Breaking through ‘legislative gridlock’: Bipartisan Bike Ride tours Seattle

I called it Congressional Mass. Then someone next to me joked it should be called Legislative Gridlock. But the 150 or so state legislators and I were on bikes, so we actually moved through downtown and around Lake Union quite smoothly. Seattle is hosting the National Conference of State Legislators this week, and Thursday morning…
(read more…)

tagged: bike texas, bipartisan bike ride, ed orcutt, washington bikes
July 29, 2015

Gov. Inslee saves bike/walk/transit funding, will create carbon cap rather than swallow ‘poison pill’

It was a weird day when biking, walking and (some) transit advocates were arguing against clean fuel standards, but that was the trap political opponents of Governor Jay Inslee set in the state’s new transportation funding laws. A so-called “poison pill” inserted into the law said that if the Governor takes executive action to enact…
(read more…)

tagged: 2015 legislature, jay inslee, poison pill, washington bikes
July 22, 2015

King 5: Inslee backed into corner on ‘poison pill’

Governor Jay Inslee was literally backed into a corner in a recent King 5 report, a pertinent visual for the Governor’s tricky position thanks to the “poison pill” provision in the state transportation package that would sacrifice walking and biking safety funds for so-called “clean” fuel standards. “It is ludicrous to make Washingtonians choose between…
(read more…)

tagged: 2015 legislature, jay inslee, poison pill, washington bikes
July 20, 2015

Gov. Inslee tries to save face on climate change by spending bike/walk money on highways

Governor Jay Inslee dug one hell of a climate change hole by pushing a highway-filled transportation package through the legislature a couple weeks ago. And now he’s trying to save face by digging deeper. The Governor is currently mulling an idea that would trade hundreds of millions of dollars in bike/walk safety and trails funding…
(read more…)

tagged: 2015 legislature, cascade bicycle club, jay inslee, washington bikes